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Introduction to part III
No full text© Cambridge University Press 2017. The management of people is as a key factor that contributes to the success of projects at any level in an organization. Part III includes topics from prominent authors from areas that are allied to OPM, such as sociology, psychology, and human resource management, where the authors discuss various aspects of people and their activities in OPM. Part III starts with Chapter 11 “Human Resource Management in Organizational Project Management: Current Trends and Future Prospects” by Anne Keegan, Martina Huemann, and Claudia Ringhofer. Their chapter discusses recent research linking HRM and OPM to identify key themes that differentiate HRM at a project level from OPM at an organizational level. The authors also identify current gaps in research related to HRM and OPM and propose a research agenda that would help in enhancing the OPM capability of an organization. This is followed by Chapter 12, “Stakeholders” by Pernille Eskerod, who highlights the importance of changing the approach for dealing with stakeholders in an OPM environment. She proposes a stakeholder-centric approach in dealing with a network of stakeholders, which is more effective in an OPM environment, as opposed to a project-centric approach that focuses narrowly on the relations between a project and its stakeholders at the project level. Chapter 13 deals with another important aspect of the people aspect of OPM – leadership. Ralf Müller, Johan Packendorff, and Shankar Sankaran emphasize the need for a balanced attitude to leadership in an OPM context in this chapter, “Balanced Leadership: A New Perspective for Leadership in Organizational Project Management,” by proposing the need for a balance between the leadership of a vertical leader (at management level) and horizontal leaders (at team level). They propose a four-step process, outlining the intra- and interpersonal activities for vertical and horizontal leaders at each of these steps. This chapter is followed by a discussion on teams in the context of OPM, “Project Teams and Their Role in Organizational Project Management.” Nathalie Drouin and Shankar Sankaran argue in Chapter 14 that while the project management literature has focused on studying teams within projects, we also need to consider the relationship between functional teams and project teams in an OPM environment as there will be need for cross-functional collaboration
Evolution of space programs governance
Full text linkThis chapter discusses the evolution of space programs governance from the “Old Space” paradigm to the “New Space” one. For both paradigms, we discuss archetypical governance models, rationale, pros and cons. Ultimately, we explain the driving forces underpinning the evolution of program governance models. We show three governance archetypes. Traditionally program architectures and governance models were quite homogeneous and mostly government-led (archetype 1), while in the “New Space” paradigm, programs may also include partnerships with private actors (archetype 2) or being directly led and owned by private actors (archetype 3)
Mixed methods research design well beyond the notion of triangulation /
No full textThe aim of this chapter will be to make a detailed exploration of mixed methods research (MMR) designs as an indicator of a movement towards more complex and innovative research designs in which both qualitative and quantitative approaches are combined, integrated, fused and blended. The MMR movement has now developed to a stage where there are over 40 MMR designs and even typologies of typologies. The two-dimensional linear concept of triangulation, so often used in pure quantitative mono-methods research or in qualitative research as a measure for validity, has become a thing of the past for those utilising MMR. There is also a significant amount of cross-fertilisation between the disciplines within the MMR community with the following disciplines all contributing to methodological advances in MMR design: health, nursing, medicine, business/management, education, engineering and psychology/counselling. The usefulness of conducting MMR in trans-disciplinary teams will become apparent to organisational project management researchers through the discussion of complex and novel MMR designs. MMR is useful when a phenomenon being studied is complex and needs multiple methods to investigate it. MMR has been found useful in a variety of fields and applications including management and organisational research but does not seem to be prominent in project management (PM) research despite the need for investigating better approaches to deal with complexity in projects. The authors of this chapter feel that a discussion about MMR will make a useful contribution to a book promoting translational approaches in PM research by assisting PM researchers to study complex phenomena
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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